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Now under her arm she has a probably silver or bronze vase
在她的手臂下面有一只似乎是银质或青铜的花瓶
And art history really is not rocket science
艺术史真的不是什么高深莫测的事
And it gives people the chance to make up anything they want
人们可以对其随心所欲，任意编造，什么都可以
And here you know
而这里
I don't know about you
我不知道大家能不能分辨出来
But I can't actually tell what's in that
但我是真的看不出花瓶里面有什么东西
But that has never stopped art historians from telling you what's in it
但就这样也无法阻止艺术史学家去推测里面的物品
Some people have suggested it's the ashes of her first husband
有些人认为是这个女人第一任丈夫的骨灰
Other people have suggested that it's rose petals
有些人觉得是玫瑰花瓣
Some people have suggested that it's money
有些人则认为是钱
Other people have suggested it's jewellery
另有些人认为是珠宝
And some people have suggested that it's water
还有人认为是水
You really can't tell
但是真的分辨不出来到底是什么
But what I can tell you is the kind of vase it was
但我可以告诉你们那个花瓶的类别
And what it was used for and how you can relate it to other ones
它被用于做什么，以及如何将它与其它物品联系起来
And in the exhibition there is a fabulous vase
在此次展览中，有一个非常精美的花瓶
That was done a little bit later in the 16th century
制于16世纪较晚期
In Milan for a wedding between the Annoni and Sforza families
为米兰城里阿诺尼与斯福尔札家族的一场婚礼而打造
And in this case too the bride had been married before
这场婚姻的情况里，新娘之前也是结过婚的
And this was a gift to their mother by her two children when she remarried
这个花瓶就是她的两个孩子送给她的再婚礼物
And the imagery going around it
而这个花瓶周围环绕的意象
More or less relates to the idea of marital concord and happiness
基本就是婚姻和睦幸福的意思
and the hopeful idea that the marriage was going to bring about more siblings
以及希望这段婚姻能给这两个孩子
for the two children that gave this to her
带来更多的兄弟姐妹
And that kind of vessel is exactly the kind of vessel you would see
而那种容器恰好就是大家将要看到的这一种
This is Ghirlandaio's Birth of the Virgin
这是基尔兰达约的《圣母玛利亚的诞生》
And down here you can see at the birth of the virgin
在这个地方可以看到在圣母玛利亚出生的时候
Water being poured into a vessel that is just like that
水被倒在一个跟刚刚讲的这类器皿一样的容器里
And they would not only be there as a kind of symbol in this painting
在这幅画里，这不仅象征着
Of the fact that what the marriage was going to bring about was children
婚姻的作用就是带来孩子这个事实
And here you have an object that you would use when those children came about
而且，这也是在孩子出生时将会用到的一个物品
They may also be related to at times in the ring ceremony
这类容器也许跟交换戒指的典礼有关
They would wash their hands
结婚双方都要洗手
And it may be a vessel that she would have washed her hands at that point in as well
新娘可能在结婚的时候就用这种器皿洗的手
Now in the middle of the thing there is another silver and gold vessel
在这个石台的中间有另外一个金银器皿
Placed right there
刚好就放在这里
And that type of vessel is a very different kind of gift
而这种器皿是一种很不同的礼物
We've been talking about all these kinds of gifts that the groom gave to the bride
我们一直在讲的都是新郎送给新娘的各类礼物
But the bride also gave gifts to her betrothed
但新娘也有送礼物给她的未婚夫
And one of the kinds of vessels that she might give was what in Italian are known as Baccine
其中一种她可能送给新郎的器皿，意大利人称其为Bacchine
And here you see one that's very very similar
而在这里，你们看到的这个跟它非常相似
